List Institutions - Afriex Business API
Afriex SDK
TypeScript
const institutions = await afriex.paymentMethods.getInstitutions({
channel: "BANK_ACCOUNT",
countryCode: "NG",
});
// Returns: Institution[], { institutionId, institutionName, institutionCode }
cURL
curl --request GET \
--url https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/payment-method/institution \
--header 'x-api-key: <api-key>'
Python
import requests
url = "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/payment-method/institution"
headers = {"x-api-key": "<api-key>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)
JavaScript (Fetch API)
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>'}};
fetch('https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/payment-method/institution', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
PHP
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/payment-method/institution",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"x-api-key: <api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
?>
Go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/payment-method/institution"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}
Java (Unirest)
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/payment-method/institution")
.header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
.asString();
Ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/payment-method/institution")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
Sample Response
{
"data": [
{
"institutionName": "Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) Plc",
"institutionCode": "000013",
"institutionBranch": "",
"institutionAddress": ""
},
{
"institutionName": "Zenith Bank",
"institutionCode": "000015",
"institutionBranch": "",
"institutionAddress": ""
},
{
"institutionName": "Wema Bank",
"institutionCode": "000017",
"institutionBranch": "",
"institutionAddress": ""
}
],
"total": 38,
"page": 0
}
Authorizations
- x-api-key: Static business API key issued from the dashboard. Required for each request.
Headers
- x-api-signature: Signature of the request payload, used for request authentication.
- x-api-version: API version in ISO 8601 format.
Query Parameters
- channel: Required. The payment method channel (e.g.,
BANK_ACCOUNT, MOBILE_MONEY, etc.).
- countryCode: Required. The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.